- ATC seeks investigation report of the incident on the subsequent listening to.
- Provisions of terrorism have been added to FIR, police inform courtroom.
- Afnan’s lawyer tells the courtroom that his shopper is simply 17 years outdated.
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism courtroom in Lahore on Saturday accredited a five-day bodily remand of Afnan Shafqat, 17, in a case associated to a tragic highway accident in Lahore’s Defence Section-VII that claimed 5 lives of the identical household.
The courtroom additionally sought an investigation report of the incident on the subsequent listening to.
Throughout at this time’s listening to, the police informed the decide that provisions of terrorism have been added to the primary data report (FIR).
The police stated they need to be granted bodily remand to analyze the accused.
“Did the judicial Justice of the Peace grant bodily remand earlier than this?” the courtroom requested.
At this, the sufferer’s lawyer stated that the investigating officer didn’t ask for remand from the judicial Justice of the Peace.
He urged that the police must be granted Afnan’s bodily remand, saying that they haven’t recovered something from the accused but.
Later, the lawyer representing {the teenager} stated {that a} honest trial is everybody’s proper.
“We’re saying that an unlucky incident occurred and we admit that the accident occurred because of the negligence of the accused,” stated the lawyer.
Afnan’s lawyer informed the courtroom that he’s solely 17 years outdated, requesting the insertion of applicable clauses within the FIR.
“The accused could be tried underneath the juvenile courtroom,” he talked about.
The accident
In accordance with The Information, teenage driver Afnan had clashed with the victims and threatened them earlier than hitting their automobile in Lahore’s DHA earlier this week.
The motive force adopted the ladies sitting within the automobile from Y Block for fairly a while. Hasnain, the motive force of the victims’ automobile, sped up his automobile a number of instances in order that Afnan might hand over the chase, however the accused didn’t hand over and continued harassing the household.
Nonetheless, Hasnain later stopped the automobile and scolded Afnan for his behaviour.
Hasnain’s father, travelling in one other automobile, additionally requested Afnan to cease harassing the ladies however he rammed his automobile into the victims’ automobile at a pace of 160km/hour close to McDonald’s Chowk.
After the accident, Hasnain’s automobile flew 70 toes away from the highway and all of the occupants died on web site. 4 folks got here to rescue however the suspect ran away after seeing the anger of the folks.
Following the incident, {the teenager} was taken into custody and the case was handed over to deputy superintendent Kahna with sections of terrorism and homicide added within the FIR.
Then again, {the teenager}’s household is resorting to unethical techniques to strain the victims’ household into withdrawing the case.
Crackdown towards underage drivers
A day earlier, Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi ordered a crackdown towards underage drivers throughout the province after the incident.
Naqvi directed the inspector normal of Punjab police, capital metropolis police officer Lahore and regional cops to take motion towards these driving vehicles and bikes with no license.
“Underage drivers aren’t solely a risk to others however themselves as nicely. Dad and mom shouldn’t enable underage children to drive vehicles and bikes,” Naqvi appealed whereas issuing the directives.